Welcome to The Engraver's Cafe hand engraving forum! Your are welcome to browse, but you will have to REGISTER
before you can participate in discussions and view the thousands of photos in our Gallery which include jewelry, knife engraving, gun engraving, hobo nickels, scrimshaw, watches, western engraving, bulino engraving, and much more. It's free so click here to register now. To start viewing our forum messages, click the HAND ENGRAVING FORUM button above.

Is Linux an "operating system" that is used on Apple products? I keep hearing that the Apple is simpler, more reliable and intuitive system. Anybody got experience with both Microsoft and Apple? I know you gotta dig deeper into your pockets to afford Apple.

Well I guess it technically could be used but why pay more to do something you can do on a PC?
I have a 4 year old Toshiba laptop (Celeron 1.35, 1 gig of memory, 80 gig hard drive) and a guy at work jaw dropped when he saw it working. (He just spent a boatload of cash on a new Apple laptop).
If:
1) money is no problem (Apple)
2) you are a gamer (PC)
3) you only use the computer for basic stuff like email, web surfing and maybe basic drawing/photoshop (Linux)

Well I guess it technically could be used but why pay more to do something you can do on a PC?
I have a 4 year old Toshiba laptop (Celeron 1.35, 1 gig of memory, 80 gig hard drive) and a guy at work jaw dropped when he saw it working. (He just spent a boatload of cash on a new Apple laptop).
If:
1) money is no problem (Apple)
2) you are a gamer (PC)
3) you only use the computer for basic stuff like email, web surfing and maybe basic drawing/photoshop (Linux)

It's not really i think i use
all this SO and linux it's not the most simple to use,maybe it' the most complicated because you need know unix for a lot of operations and installs.

It's not really i think i use
all this SO and linux it's not the most simple to use,maybe it' the most complicated because you need know unix for a lot of operations and installs.

Sorry but I am not sure I understand your phrasing.

The last part I get, I think.
Maybe it was true of Linux many years ago but not anymore.
I've been using Ubuntu for a year and I have absolutely no idea about unix.
Just download and burn to CD Ubuntu and you can boot up from it and see what it is like.

#3 Run Linux if you despise Microsoft products and want complete control of your system.

Linux really shines as a server OS. Once it is configured, it'll run for months hosting web, e-mail, VPN, firewall and Windows file sharing. I've had Red Hat servers run without interruption for over a year.